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(article, Culinate staff)

Grocery stores, the New York Times reports, are getting smaller. The emphasis, the paper reports, is on shoppers who want to dash and dine — in other words, to get higher-quality food, even meals to go, without walking past miles of paper towels. As one business consultant told the Times, “If you’ve got 50 feet of ketchup and what you want is Hunt’s 64-ounce and you can’t find it, people get overwhelmed.”